Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ambassadors Houghton (medium height, plump cheeks) and Herrick (tall, grizzled) were due to appear, having come home from their posts in England and France, respectively, to partake in the deliberations of the party from whom they hold their portfolios. Ambassador Morrow was home from Mexico, too, but not expected in Kansas City. Mr. Morrow did his conferring last week in Washington with President Coolidge, then retired from the public scene...
When the Council of the League of Nations sat down to its June session in Geneva, last week, two famed faces were absent. One is nude, plump, confident; the other shaggily mustached, and lined with weary wrinkles. As everyone knows, these are respectively the faces of German Foreign Minister Dr. Gustav Stresemann and French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand. Both are slowly convalescing from illness...
...Republican shambles, he [Mr. Hoover] is vaguely reminiscent of a plump and timorous capon, fluttering anxiously on the outskirts of a free-for-all cockfight...
...House, the Norris measure was altered by Pennsylvania's Morin to plump the U. S. squarely into the fertilizer business. This brought the National Fertilizer Association buzzing back to Washington in open, indignant lobby. Their case seemed better than the case of the Power lobbyists and the House consented to substitute the words "fixed nitrogen" for "fertilizer." The U. S. would make, as it did during the War, the ingredient of fertilizer and ammunition, not the finished product. Government operation of the power plants was retained and, as the Bill passed the House, a $10,000,000 Government power...
...sometimes offered by Edward of Wales to that small smart set which fore-gathers at his bachelor quarters in York House (a wing of St. James's Palace). Last week this sporting company chuckled as His Royal Highness displayed a cartoon of his own sketching. It showed a plump and ruddy personage, the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in the act of presenting his Budget for 1928 to the House of Commons (TIME...